The governing body of the county receiving the proposal pursuant to section 249.1100 shall set a day for a public hearing prior to election for the creation of a consolidated sewer district and shall publish the resolution with a notice of the time and place of public hearing in some local newspaper of general circulation, published in such county in which any district proposed to be consolidated lies at least thirty days before the date of the hearing. At such hearing anyone interested in the proposed consolidation of sewer districts may appear and present their views to the governing body of the county.